John Rutledge

Rutledge is the chairman of Rutledge Capital, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity investment firm, and of Rutledge Research, a Virginia-based economic advisory firm. He also publishes The Rutledge Report, a weekly investment newsletter, and serves as chairman of the advisory boards of the B.V. Group, a venture capital, hedge fund and real estate investment firm, and Saugatuck Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Rutledge serves as partner at Kudlow & Co.

He also founded the Claremont Economics Institute in Claremont, Calif., and served as its chairman for 20 years. In the past two decades, he has founded a family of mutual funds, served on the boards of more than three dozen companies and participated in more than 30 leveraged buyout transactions. In 1980-81, Rutledge served as a member of the Reagan transition team as one of the principal architects of the Reagan Economic Plan.

He began his career on the faculty of Tulane University and Claremont McKenna College, where he taught monetary economics, international finance and econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Lake Forest College.